Discussion Questions


  • What are some things you learned about planning and teaching from your vignette?
    • We learned a good way to open an inquiry activity with a general question "Is there an evolutionary trend? about the fossils. He did this to get them thinking about fossils and their connection to evolution.
    • The importance of guiding questions for the students.
  • What were the critical aspects of the lesson sequence? How would you "transfer" these aspects to address another topic?
    • Just in time teaching, here students want to know the answer and during the ongoing activity he introduces information about evolution
  • How did the teacher engage students in the topic?
    • The teacher engaged the students by allowing them to generate their own questions
  • How did sequence facilitate "active" learning on the part of the students?